{"id":2778,"date":"2016-07-01T01:18:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T01:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/blogs\/historic-wooden-drawbridge-restored\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T15:40:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:40:52","slug":"historic-wooden-drawbridge-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/blog\/historic-wooden-drawbridge-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic wooden drawbridge restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell River Bridge stands open waiting on sailboats in Chatham, Massachusetts. This historic wooden bascule bridge is the last surviving drawbridge in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>ArchTam was hired to re-engineer the structurally deficient bridge that could no longer fully open and also had a failing road structure. Being an historic structure required replacing the wood timber design with similar components. The new $14 million bridge design features a wooden superstructure, including the road surface, railings and sidewalks. Its substructure is comprised of concrete-filled steel pilings &#8211; the parts in contact with the water &#8211; and concrete pile caps that support the superstructure.<\/p>\n<p>This exposure was taken at 1\/100th of a second at f 8.0 at ISO 200 on a Canon 1Dx mk II camera with 70-200mm lens with a heliopan circular polarizing filter.<\/p>\n<p>Photo \u00a9 Robb Williamson \/ ArchTam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell River Bridge stands open waiting on sailboats in Chatham, Massachusetts. This historic wooden bascule bridge is the last surviving drawbridge in Massachusetts. ArchTam was hired to re-engineer the structurally deficient bridge that could no longer fully open and also had a failing road structure. Being an historic structure required replacing the wood timber design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":2779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,162],"tags":[231,187],"yst_prominent_words":[335,1357,421,1362,1359,1245,607,1366,1367,1363],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-construction-services","category-transportation","tag-engineering","tag-transportation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archtam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}